MR CLARINET
Book ID/图书代码： 00200006B01622
English Summary/英文概要： MR CLARINET by Nick Stone is one of the most exciting – and perhaps the most original – debut novel I have ever worked on (and I have been a commissioning editor for eleven years now). It’s a dark, chilling thriller set partly in Miami and partly in the voodoo-dominated island of Haiti, where over the decades a number of children have gone missing. A myth has grown up on the island about a pied-piper like figure called ‘Mr Clarinet’ who spirits the children away. When our hero, private eye Max Mingus, is hired to find the missing son of a billionaire he is forced to travel to Haiti and discover the reality behind the myth. And it is very scary...
It was Nick’s writing style that first sold the novel to me. His prose is so rich and vivid and required hardly any editing (so rare for a debut!). We did, however, work a little on the plot, and I remember one day when I was reading a new draft the hairs on the back of my neck starting to rise. The plot and the prose and the characters had all come together to such effect that I knew I had something special here.
MR CLARINET adopts the conventions of the crime thriller but takes them into a new and exciting direction. If you love John Connolly’s novels you’ll love this, if you loved the film ANGEL HEART you’ll love this. But basically, if you love dark thrillers that give you the chills they don’t come much better than this.
As evidence of the growing anticipation for Nick’s debut, Michael Joseph/Penguin have recently had to take action to remove early book proofs of MR CLARINET that were being illegally sold on Ebay. So don’t miss out on this amazing novel - just please wait until it is officially published in January 2006!
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Max Mingus是一位前警探，現任私家偵探，一筆可觀的酬金讓他前往海地去調查一位億萬富翁兒子的失蹤案。那是一個充滿傳說，巫術，邪惡魔咒，小孩子總是會離奇失蹤的地方，傳說中的豎笛先生將無數的兒童默默地從父母親身邊奪走。究竟真相為何？背後竟有比這傳說更令人吃驚的隱情嗎？Mingus收下這可觀的酬金熟不知有多少偵探葬送在追捕傳說的過程中…
Awards/获奖情况：剛榮獲2006英國推理作家協會獎(CWA Award)的Ian Fleming(007系列小說作者)的
鋼匕首獎(Ian Fleming Memorial Steel Dagger)
’Brilliant . . . The Browser predicts that Mr Clarinet will be spoken of in the same breath as Graham Greene’s The Comedians’ ---Observer, January 22, 2006
’Gritty and unremittingly dark, replete with supervillains, Mr Clarinet pays homage to pulp fiction and film noir.’ ---The Guardian, January 21, 2006
’Painstakingly researched, effectively written and well conceived, it deserves all of its pre-release hype.’ ---Big Issue in the North, January 23, 2006
’This is a hotshot debut novel. If you trust my judgement, buy it.’ ---The Independent on Sunday, January 1, 2006
’If there’s one thing you must do in 2006, curl up and read Mr Clarinet by Nick Stone.’ ---Daily Express, January 4, 2006
’This is crime fiction at its zenith, challenging, compelling and with an insight that delves deep under the skin.’ ---Crimespree
About the Author/作者介绍： Nick Stone was born in Cambridge in 1966. His father is the historian Norman Stone, and his mother descends from one of Haiti’s oldest families, the Aubrys -- some of his later relatives actually worked for Francois ’Papa Doc’ Duvalier, Haiti’s most notorious dictator. He is married and lives in London.
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